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Microsoft InfoPath makes it relatively easy for end-users to design XML-based forms. It is also a stress-free way for users to design forms that can connect to databases, XML schemas or even to SharePoint Lists.
Earlier this year, Microsoft has also announced that it will discontinue InfoPath to pursue a more integrated experience for Office forms. So look out for some InfoPath features being integrated into Word, Access and SharePoint in the future!
Although InfoPath is at the end of its life, it doesn't mean people will stop using it right away, so there will still be room for writing an add-in or two. We all know when it comes to writing add-ins for any product in the Microsoft Office suite that Add-in Express is the toolset for the job.
Let's have a closer look at each of main InfoPath objects one by one.
The first two Application objects have been superseded by the _Application3 object and merely remain in the object model for backward compatibility. For any new InfoPath add-ins, use the _Application3 object. Add-in Express automatically takes care of this for you by adding a property to the AddinModule class that references the correct Application object.
The XDocument object is an important object in the InfoPath object model as it can be used to programmatically interact and manipulate the XML source of the InfoPath document. You can access the XDocument object by referencing the XDocument property of the ActiveWindow object. The ActiveWindow object is a property on the Application3 object.
To iterate through all the fields in an InfoPath Form, you'll have to use the DOM property of the active XDocument object. An InfoPath form is essentially an XML document, so looping through its fields involves looping through the child nodes of the forms' document element.
Setting the form field values, is done in a similar fashion as you would set element values in an XML document. You can get a reference to a specific field's node by using the getElementsByTagName method of the IXMLDOMDocument object. In this example, we're using the Travel request template and setting the purpose and name fields.
Like all of the applications in the Microsoft Office 2013 suite, InfoPath 2013 also supports the Office Ribbon UI. To add your own ribbon tab to the InfoPath window, you first need to add a new ribbon tab control (ADXRibbonTab) to the AddinModule designer surface by clicking on its corresponding icon on the AddinModule designer toolbar.
Add-in Express also makes it easy to add your own items to the built-in context-menus of InfoPath by providing an ADXRibbonContextMenu component.
After adding this component to the AddinModule designer surface, you can design the context menu items using the built-in visual designer.
You'll also need to specify the ADXRibbonContextMenu's Ribbons property. By setting it to InforPathFiller, your custom context menu will only be visible when the user is completing the form, not whilst the form is being designed.
Office Task panes are a convenient way for users to use different commands and to perform various tasks. It also provides developers with a way to display more information and show a larger UI than they are able to do with the ribbon UI.
MS InfoPath also supports custom task panes and Add-in Express similarly enables developers to quickly and easily create their own task panes. To create your custom InfoPath task pane, first add a new Windows Forms User Control to your project.
You can design the user control as you would a standard windows form. After you've designed the task pane, select the AddinModule designer surface and click on the ellipses (…) button next to its TaskPane property.
SupportedApps – One task pane can be used in multiple Office applications. To only use it in InfoPath set this property to InfoPath.
Lastly, we'll take a look at how you can add your own items to the File menu or rather the backstage view of InfoPath. In order to add your own items, you first need to add an ADXBackstageView component to the AddinModule designer surface.
Add-in Express provides a powerful visual designer for the Office backstage view, with which you can design a large variety of different layouts.


Romania is a country steeped in the legend, but not everything about it that you have heard is true and many things people just don't know about. Now to bring light to the darkness of this land, we present you with the nine things you didn't know about Romania.
There are many legends about the so-called gypsies who are more properly known as Romani and many people falsely believe they are European people by origin but they would be wrong. Gypsies or Romani actually originated from northern India. Their language, although indo-european as origin and thus part of the greater family of languages that belong to this group, is more closely related to the languages of the Indian subcontinent such as Hindi than modern European languages. The Romani wandered out of India over a millennium ago making their way to Europe and subsequently have had many difficulties integrating into local populations.
The Romani wandered out of India over a millennium ago making their way to Europe and subsequently have had many difficulties integrating into local populations. Nowhere is this truer than in Romania where they live in segregated communities, isolated from mainstream Romanian society. Because of this isolation and self-imposed ethnic segregation, Romani are often targeted as objects of persecution. Yet at the same time, there's substantial evidence that Romani do commit crimes at a higher rate than the local Romanian population ranging from pickpocketing to robbery and more.
But what is perhaps most interesting is that Romani do not necessarily regard others outside of their direct tribe as friends and people to be trusted. Either way, the Romani have shown themselves to be persistent in maintaining their ethnic separatism, while ignoring the host Romanian culture which does not bode well for them in the future, as it has not done so in the past.
No list of Romania would be complete without mention of the legendary and perhaps more appropriately infamous warrior Vlad Tepes, more commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, whose historicity cannot be doubted, but whose legend extends far beyond his historical actions as he was immortalized as the preeminent vampire of the legend of Dracula. However, the question remains who was the real Vlad Tepes? Born the second son of Vlad Dracul or Vlad the dragon, Tepes was born in the 15th century to an environment surrounded by hostiles, the greatest of which was the Ottoman Empire which had been expanding at an alarming rate. He was Prince of Wallachia three times during his lifetime. Vlad was not the most successful political ruler having suffered exile and imprisonment with periodic breaks in his rule but what he was most famous for was his unparalleled cruelty and how he meted out punishment and justice, who is known for his enjoyment at the suffering of others.
However, the question remains who was the real Vlad Tepes? Born the second son of Vlad Dracul or Vlad the dragon, Tepes was born in the 15th century to an environment surrounded by hostiles, the greatest of which was the Ottoman Empire which had been expanding at an alarming rate. He was Prince of Wallachia three times during his lifetime. Vlad was not the most successful political ruler having suffered exile and imprisonment with periodic breaks in his rule but what he was most famous for was his unparalleled cruelty and how he meted out punishment and justice, who is known for his enjoyment at the suffering of others.
A late 15th-century account describes the following quote: "Vlad had a big copper cauldron built and put a lid made of wood with holes in it on top. He put the people in the cauldron and put their heads in the holes and passing them there. Then he filled it with water and to the fire under it, let the people cry their eyes out until they were boiled to death." Then he invented frightening terrible unheard-of tortures. He ordered that women be impaled together with their babies on the same stake. The babies fought for their lives at their mother's breasts until they died. Of course for too many Romanians, these tales are regarded as specious at best and Vlad is sometimes seen as a national hero who resisted the expansionist power of the Ottomans.
Of course for too many Romanians, these tales are regarded as specious at best and Vlad is sometimes seen as a national hero who resisted the expansionist power of the Ottomans. However, few people seem to realise that it is entirely possible to be both a hero and a villain and this is likely the most accurate picture.
As one of the most recent major events to take place in Romania, thousands of Romanian citizens have stood up to their government's attempts to limit penalties to politicians who engage in corrupt behaviour such as bribery. The legislation has been claimed by those presenting it, is meant to curtail the amount of people who wind up in prison for so-called minor offences.
The Romanian language is truly unique among Romance languages. The so-called daughter languages of Latin include Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese. Because of the unique historical circumstances that surrounded and led to specific developments found in Romanian but not in other Romance languages, for one thing, it is a wonder that Romanian is a Romance language which has even survived the centuries in a remote Roman province that had far less influence compared to places such as Italy.
After the Roman Empire had fallen, the region of Dacia was beset by numerous invasions of Slavic people as well as others, and this isolation, along with frequent contact with Slavic languages, created the unique linguistic state of affairs we find in the Romanian language. Today, Romanian is more archaic than other Romance languages and has preserved at least partially the Latin system whereas this has entirely disappeared from other Romance languages. Romanian retains three of the six original cases where the nominative and accusative are morphologically identical as is the dative and genitive, and the vocative being used infrequently in Romanian unlike other Romance languages. The language also retains the gender category of neuter in addition to masculine and feminine. Romanian also shares grammatical features of languages that share the same geography such as Bulgarian in that the definite article is put at the end of a word rather than in front of it. This is a testament to Romanian's unique linguistic history.
Nicolae Ceausescu is the last major Soviet puppet and communist leader in Romania who, interestingly enough, was overthrown on live television while in the middle of giving a traditional calm in his speech in late 1989.
He would later be executed by order of a court several days after. Born into a peasant family of ten and in office for over 20 years, it is hard to tell if he actually believed the communist propaganda, but most people who lived for his regime considered him as nothing more than a Soviet puppet and tyrant.
Romanian food is a unique blend of different dishes from many countries it has come into contact with. At the same time, it maintains its own character and it has been heavily influenced by Ottoman cuisine while it also includes influences from the cuisines of other neighbouring countries such as Bulgaria and Hungary. There are many different types of dishes – for example, a wide range of soups with a characteristic similar taste. These may be meat and vegetable soups, calf soups or fish soups – all of which are soured by lemon juice, sauerkraut juice, and vinegar.
In Romania, exotic and almost mystical, the Carpathians are a mountain range that runs through eastern Romania and includes a huge amount of biodiversity and remains an incredibly popular tourist destination for both a beautiful landscape as well as a popular spot for skiing.
Large predators such as bulls and bears as well as all manner of smaller mammals populate this mountain range and are a popular reason for visiting for many wildlife aficionados. The relative isolation of the Carpathians has ensured the existence of these animals that have been wiped out in other places in Europe. Speaking of bears, the love for this majestic animal manifests itself in Romania in many ways, including a unique but familiar holiday enjoyed nowhere else but in Romania. Unlike most other European countries, Romania has many bears and the celebration of the day of the bear is thought to be related to the bears' hibernation cycles and the changing of the seasons.
Speaking of bears, the love for this majestic animal manifests itself in Romania in many ways, including a unique but familiar holiday enjoyed nowhere else but in Romania. Unlike most other European countries, Romania has many bears and the celebration of the day of the bear is thought to be related to the bears' hibernation cycles and the changing of the seasons.
You might have never guessed it but cigarette smuggling is an incredibly lucrative business Romania as a single hand-rolled cigarette coming in from neighbouring Ukraine could retail for up to half a euro in Romania. Officials have consistently cracked down in over thirty smuggling operations and confiscated almost 10 million packs in 2016 alone. But where there is profit to be made, such businesses continue to flourish as no government can keep people away from a good deal even if that deal comes in the form of smuggling cigarettes.
Hungarians make up the largest ethnic minority in Romania, numbering well over 1 million and their presence in Romania is largely a consequence of territory that had formerly been Hungarian but was ceded to Romania after World War 1. Tensions since then have been high as most Romanian Hungarians do not consider themselves Romanian and view the lines they live in as fundamentally Hungarian.
However, as modernity has pressed on, fewer ethnic tensions have arisen in recent years and most people whether officially Romanian or Hungarian Romanian are content and let sleeping dogs lie.


Estonia broadcaster ERR have today made a few announcements about the 7th edition of Eesti Laul which will determine who will represent the Baltic nation in Vienna.
This rule change is minor, but significant. In previous years the juries have pushed popular songs into third and therefore out of contention. The most notable example of this is when televote winner Laura ended up third overall with the combined jury vote in 2009.
Interested parties will have until December 1st to submit their entries. It has not been announced when the list of participants will be revealed, but traditionally this happens in January during ERR's current affair program Ringvaade.
Finally, the final of Eesti Laul 2015 will happen earlier than in previous years, happening instead on February 21st.
Back in May Heidy reaffirmed her commitment to Eesti Laul, and while Estonia was ultimately unsuccessful in Copenhagen, the Estonia delegation was overall satisfied with their performance.


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I took another look at the triple neck I made for John Paul Jones in the early 70s. I wanted to get a bit better acoustic sound, in the light of many years more experience. It now is part of a collection of my work in Los Angeles.


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Maria Regina High School, commonly referred to as Maria or MRHS, is an American Catholic, college-preparatory high school (grades 9–12) for girls founded by the Sisters of the Resurrection, located in Hartsdale, New York.

History
In 1957, Maria Regina High School was proposed by Francis Cardinal Spellman and the Sisters of the Resurrection were tasked with founding the first archdiocesan girls' high school in Westchester County.

On February 2, 1959, Maria Regina's first freshman and sophomore classes entered.

Admission
School admission is determined through the student's results on the TACHS test.  The school  also looks at the student's academic record for the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, and results on standardized examinations for the 6th and 7th grades.

Scholarships
The school offers several partial scholarships and one full scholarship, all of which are awarded based on the results of the TACHS examination.  The highest scorers who put Maria Regina as their first choice receive the scholarships.  For this scholarship to be renewed every year, the student must have an overall average greater than 90 percent at the end of each academic year. Students who are awarded scholarships tend to be placed in honors classes.

Academics
The school offers a rigorous college preparatory program.  Graduation requires successful completion of the four-year course of study.  A total of at least 26 credits is required.  The Maria Regina program includes four years of mathematics, English, social studies, and theology; three years of science and a foreign language; and one year of art and music, although many students opt to take four years of science and a foreign language, and more than one year of art.  Physical education and health are requirements for graduation. Honors classes are available in all disciplines, except theology, and AP classes are offered in classes including biology, chemistry, English literature, American history, and European history. There is a wide variety of electives to choose from for juniors and seniors, such as introduction to law, 3D printing, and criminal justice.

The school sponsors the College Link Program, in which college courses offered at Iona College and St. Thomas Aquinas College can be taken by Maria Regina students.  Students enrolled in this program have the opportunity to earn college credits that can be transferred to their colleges of choice.

The school has two wireless computer labs with a total of fifty computer workstations and a high-speed laser-jet printer.  There are 15 computer workstations in the library and another laser-jet printer.  There are 18 SMARTboards in classrooms through the building.

Clubs and organizations

Athletics
Maria Regina High School is an active member in the Catholic High School Athletic Association. Other member high schools include Cardinal Spellman, Mt. St. Ursula, Preston, and Sacred Heart.

All Maria Regina teams compete in non-conference tournaments, games, and matches so that the schedules are highly competitive.
Athletes are required to successfully complete and maintain the same courseload as other students.  Over one-fourth of the student body participates in interscholastic after-school athletics programs.

Notable alumni
 Betty Broderick, convicted murderer
 Mary Calvi, television journalist
 Linda Lovelace, pornographic actress

References

External links
 , the school's official website

1957 establishments in New York (state)
Catholic secondary schools in New York (state)
Educational institutions established in 1957
Girls' schools in New York (state)
Greenburgh, New York
Private high schools in Westchester County, New York

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Shades of Blue è una serie televisiva statunitense andata in onda dal 7 gennaio 2016 al 19 agosto 2018 sulla NBC.

Si tratta di un poliziesco procedurale (police procedural) con protagonista Jennifer Lopez nei panni di una corrotta investigatrice della polizia di New York costretta a collaborare con una squadra anticorruzione dell'FBI; la serie ha ricevuto 5 candidature per diversi premi e ha valso un People's Choice Award come miglior attrice a Jennifer Lopez.

Trama
Harlee Santos è una detective del New York City Police Department impiegata nel borgo (borough) di Brooklyn. Lei e la sua squadra, guidata dal tenente Wozniak, sono abituate a piegare le regole e fare ricorso a sotterfugi, non disdegnando di commettere veri e propri crimini, omicidi compresi, per il proprio tornaconto. Quando Harlee viene colta in flagrante a infrangere la legge, è costretta dall'agente dell'FBI Robert Stahl a cooperare con la sua squadra speciale (task force) anticorruzione e tradire la fiducia dei colleghi.

Episodi

Personaggi e interpreti

Personaggi principali
 Harlee Santos, interpretata da Jennifer Lopez, doppiata da Francesca Fiorentini.Brillante investigatrice del NYPD e madre single di una figlia.
 Matt Wozniak, interpretato da Ray Liotta, doppiato da Massimo Rossi.È il tenente a capo della squadra di Harlee.
 Tess Nazario, interpretata da Drea de Matteo, doppiata da Paola Majano.Agente del NYPD e madre di tre figli.
 Robert Stahl, interpretato da Warren Kole, doppiato da Marco Vivio.È l'agente speciale dell'FBI che guida le indagini anticorruzione contro la squadra di Harlee.
 Michael Loman, interpretato da Dayo Okeniyi, doppiato da Gianfranco Miranda.Nuovo giovane collega di Harlee Santos.
 Patrick Tufo, interpretato da Hampton Fluker, doppiato da Paolo Vivio.Altro membro dell'unità di Harlee.
 Carlos Espada, interpretato da Vincent Laresca, doppiato da Riccardo Scarafoni.Detective considerato la bussola morale della squadra.
 Cristina Santos, interpretata da Sarah Jeffery, doppiata da Sara Labidi.Figlia di Harlee.
 James Nava, interpretato da Gino Anthony Pesi.Procuratore distrettuale.

Personaggi secondari
 David Saperstein, interpretato da Santino Fontana, doppiato da Francesco Venditti.Poliziotto del NYPD. Sospettato erroneamente di essere l'informatore dell'FBI, viene spinto nel vuoto da Wozniak. David sopravvive alla caduta, ma Wozniak pone definitivamente fine alla sua vita in ospedale, iniettandogli una sostanza letale nella flebo; la sua morte getterà nello sconforto Harlee, che deciderà definitivamente di provare a incastrare Wozniak.
 Donnie Pomp, interpretato da Michael Esper, doppiato da Francesco Bulckaen.Tenente dell'ufficio per gli affari interni, oltre a essere complice di Wozniak nei suoi affari sporchi è pure il suo amante; viene ucciso per autodifesa da Loman.
 Linda Wozniak, interpretata da Lolita Davidovich (stagione 1) e Margaret Colin (stagione 2).Moglie di Matt.
 Nathan "Nate" Wozniak, interpretato da Cameron Scoggins (stagione 2 - 3), primogenito di Matt e Linda, è un giornalista del New York Ledger, apertamente gay, spesso in contrasto con suo padre.
 Molly Chen, interpretata da Annie Chang.Collega di Stahl.
 Gail Baker, interpretata da Leslie Silva
 Joe Nazario, interpretato da Mark Deklin.Marito di Tess.
 Erica, interpretata da Erica Ash.Fidanzata di Loman.
 Madre di David, interpretata da Kathryn Kates
 Miguel Zepeda, interpretato da Antonio Jaramillo.Ex-fidanzato di Harlee e padre di Cristina, arriva quasi a uccidere entrambe; mentre tenta di stuprare nuovamente la donna, questa gli prende il collo e glielo rompe, uccidendolo.
 Julia Ayres, interpretata da Anna Gunn.Ex agente, promossa Capitano, ed ex amante di Wozniak, si candida alla carica di sindaco e si allea con dei criminali per ottenerla. Si suicida quando i suoi affari sporchi vengono scoperti, poco dopo essere stata eletta sindaco.

Produzione
Shades of Blue è stata annunciata per la prima volta nel mese di febbraio 2014, quando la NBC ha approvato il relativo progetto presentato dalla Ryan Seacrest Productions, ordinando direttamente la produzione di una prima stagione da tredici episodi; la casa di produzione di Ryan Seacrest aveva in precedenza acquistato una sceneggiatura speculativa (spec script) redatta dall'ideatore e coproduttore esecutivo Adi Hasak incentrata su un'investigatrice che, dopo essere stata complice nelle attività illegali condotte da colleghi corrotti, si ritrova costretta a lavorare sotto copertura contro di essi, trovandosi di fronte a un dilemma morale: fino a che punto tradire i propri compagni, con i quali ha sviluppato un legame fraterno che travalica la vita professionale, per riscattare sé stessa? La stessa sceneggiatura è stata offerta in un primo momento all'emittente ABC, che non si è dimostrata interessata; con l'entrata in gioco della Ryan Seacrest Productions, Jennifer Lopez, che aveva già collaborato con Seacrest al reality American Idol, ha preso parte al progetto come protagonista e coproduttrice della serie. Oltre a Adi Hasak, Ryan Seacrest, e Jennifer Lopez, figurano tra i produttori esecutivi anche Benny Medina, Jack Orman, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Nina Wass e Barry Levinson, il quale ha anche diretto l'episodio pilota.

Nel mese di febbraio 2015 a Jennifer Lopez, interprete della protagonista Harlee Santos, si sono aggiunti nel gruppo di interpreti Ray Liotta, nel ruolo del tenente Wozniak; Warren Kole, nelle vesti dell'agente FBI Robert Stahl; Drea de Matteo e Vincent Laresca, nelle vesti di colleghi della protagonista; nei mesi seguenti vengono ingaggiati anche l'esordiente Hampton Fluker, Dayo Okeniyi e Sarah Jeffery, interprete della figlia della protagonista, mentre tra i personaggi ricorrenti viene annunciata la presenza di Gino Anthony Pesi, Santino Fontana, Michael Esper e Antonio Jaramillo.

Le riprese sono incominciate a New York nel mese di giugno 2015.

Il 5 febbraio 2016, NBC ha prolungato la serie per una seconda stagione, che è composta, come la prima, di 13 episodi.

Il 17 marzo 2017 la serie viene rinnovata per una terza, poi ultima, stagione di 10 episodi.

Il 4 aprile 2018, NBC annuncia che la terza stagione sarà l'ultima. Il network NBC ha ufficialmente cancellato la serie.

Distribuzione
L'8 novembre 2015 è stato distribuito il primo promo (trailer) della serie, la quale negli Stati Uniti viene trasmessa dalla NBC dal 7 gennaio 2016.

In Italia, la serie viene trasmessa da Premium Crime,  canale televisivo a pagamento di Mediaset Premium, a partire dal 22 settembre 2016.
In chiaro la prima stagione viene trasmessa su Canale 5 nell'estate del 2017, mentre la seconda e la terza vengono trasmesse tra il 2018 e il 2022 su Top Crime.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Serie televisive ambientate a New York
Serie televisive della Universal Television


If you're a busy professional woman running your business, you're no stranger to working long hours.
Okay. I get it. If you don't get it done, who will?
But, do you get it? This relentless drive to 'get it done' is negatively impacting your health?
Because chronic stress elevates your cortisol levels. And since cortisol is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands, when your cortisol levels are elevated, day after day, your adrenal glands poop-out.
You're not sleeping well and tired when you awaken.
You're moody and emotionally 'sensitive'.
You're using caffeine and sugar to get through the day.
Lack of sleep causes hormonal imbalances that affect brain activity and physiological responses.
Cortisol production should gradually decrease through the day until it reaches its lowest levels late in the evening when you're ready for bed. However, if your cortisol levels don't decrease in the evening cortisol production doesn't get shut off and it leads to real sleep issues.
Eat protein first thing in the morning. Good sleep begins with the first meal of the day – breakfast. Eating protein for breakfast or having a protein smoothie in the morning sets your body up for restful sleep at night.
Stop eating carbohydrates three-to-five hours before you go to bed. Since carbohydrates cause your blood sugar to spike, if you eat them right before bed you'll experience low blood sugar during your sleep cycle and that may cause you to get up and eat. Thus, throwing you out of the deeper sleep that is so needed.
Banana protein smoothie made with nut milk and whey or pea protein.
Peanut butter on a spoon.
Sugar-free, organic yogurt with flaxseeds and oats.
Work with a health consultant.One of the best ideas is to work with a holistic health consultant to develop a sleep plan that is tailored for you.
If you're a busy professional woman, you're no stranger to long days, working on the weekend, and bringing work home at night. The problem with this is you're wreaking havoc on your adrenal glands and not getting the kind of sleep you so desperately need. If you're ready to rehabilitate your adrenal glands and reduce your cortisol levels, then make these five simple changes to sleep like a baby again.


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Switzerland and Slovakia
Living in Slovakia
Embassy of Switzerland in Slovakia
Consulate of Switzerland in Prešov
Swiss Contribution Office Bratislava
All consular services and visa issues are provided by the Regional Consular Centre in Vienna/Austria.
Visa and entry to Switzerland
Travel advice for Slovakia
Bilateral relations Switzerland–Slovakia
Projects in the Slovak Republic
Switzerland supports 23 projects in the Slovak Republic with its EU enlargement contribution
Bilateral Framework Agreement with the Slovak Republic
Switzerland has concluded a bilateral framework agreement with the Slovak Republic. Switzerland decides in consultation with the Slovak Republic and independently of the EU which projects it will support
Results in the Slovak Republic
Switzerland uses its enlargement contribution to promote vocational education and training in an effort to reduce youth unemployment, help Roma children enter school and connect poorly developed regions to the sewerage system
If you are planning to leave Switzerland and move abroad, or you have already done so, this page explains the steps you need to take with regard to your Swiss vehicle registration document and Swiss number plates, as well as the requirements you need to meet in order to drive on your Swiss licence in other countries. It also explains under what conditions you may drive in Switzerland on a foreign licence.
Association of Road Traffic Offices (ASA) (de, fr, it)
Swiss Authorities Online: Driving licence
Detailed information can be found on the German and French page.
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The publication Food Field Notes is an open access eZine and blog published by the University of Oregon through a partnership between then new UO Food Studies Program and the food studies field. This contemporary, cutting edge publication that focuses on issues of note in the Food Studies industry. Food Field Notes has been founded with the integrity of an academic publication, while upholding the awareness and grit of social journalism.


Hey, I was told to write an introductory post so here it is. i played electric guitar since i was around 12, but i stopped completely from 14 to 21, and here I am at 22 years old. I don't really play electric or any steel strings anymore since I've been playing classical guitar since August 2018. I've only been playing classical for about 6 months but i'm not bad because I already knew how to fingerpick etc. I'm mostly here because I've been looking for a good transcription for Chopin's Valse No.7 and it lead me here.
Thank you. I will add my location now.


Approved Permits & will be issued beginning of May. This 70x100 Canal front lot is located in White Marlin Beach offering 70'of boat dockage. Neighborhood offers a beautiful private sandy beach. Plans for your 4 Bed, 3 bath paradise dream home have been approved and are scheduled for Permit Issue. Lower Matecumbe Key in Islamorada is truly paradise & a dream come true, located at mm 74.5 near the channel 2 & 5 bridges offering you quick access to great fishing in Bay & Ocean. Channel 5 Bridge is a high arc bridge that would accommodate almost any boat. Nice quaint & quiet neighborhood & yet still close to shopping, restaurants, art district & attractions.


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Заход с данного IP запрещен.
Подскажите как задавать маски (* у меня не срабатывает).
Еще один вопрос  связан
    AllowOverride All в файле httpd.conf
Если задать припустим AllowOverride Indexes ,тогда условие файла не должно сработать,а это не так.Сервер перезапускал.
Спасибо.
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Можно так:
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Under increasing pressure to trim warehousing costs and to achieve maximum efficiency, warehouse operators are recognising that the space-saving abilities of Bendi articulated trucks – distributed in South Africa by Goscor Lift Truck Company (GLTC) – are also creating opportunities for very significant energy savings compared with premises in which counterbalance, standard Very Narrow Aisle (VNA) trucks or Reach Trucks operate.
As a rule, warehouses designed for counterbalance or Reach trucks in conjunction with adjustable pallet racking and typical aisle widths from 2.8m to 4m+ are the least efficient. However, the aisle width is only part of the equation. Turning and loading/unloading space at the ends of the aisles also accounts for 'lost' space. Many VNA machines achieve the same aisle widths as Bendis but require on average 30% of the warehouse to be dedicated to transfer aisles, P&D stations and marshalling areas. This wasted space costs money to build, heat, light, maintain, pay rent on etc.
Lost storage space at the end of aisles can be greatly reduced when operating articulated trucks. This is not only because the trucks are more manoeuvrable, but also because there's no requirement for other types of vehicle within the warehouse to load and unload alongside the warehouse trucks. Bendi articulated trucks can stack and de-stack pallets and load or unload them to or from trucks in your yard, saving space and time.
In the 1960s – and many standard VNA solutions even today – the state-of-the art warehouse solutions necessitated super-flat floors, guidance systems, slow throughputs and additional equipment, which add cost and complexity. These were basically the factors which inspired Freddy Brown, the pioneer of man-up VNA, to develop a better and more cost-effective solution: the Bendi.
The outstanding stability and improved point loading characteristics of Bendi articulated trucks allow their immediate use in all warehouses, including those with standard floor finishes and built-in flatness grades commonly used with counterbalance trucks – even where racking up to 12m high exists. This eliminates the requirement for costly specialist flooring or grinding of existing floors. There is also no requirement for guidance rails or wires as is usually the case with VNA systems.
Additionally, Bendi articulated trucks are designed to operate in external yards – even where the ground is uneven or broken.
A Bendi truck working in 1800mm aisles will, like a regular VNA truck, also store 7-high but only requires a transfer aisle of 2.7m, which, unlike narrow aisle layouts, can be bridged.
This configuration achieves 50% more pallets than a warehouse design for High Reach Trucks can achieve and 25% more than the Narrow Aisle Truck – therefore offering significantly lower costs and a much smaller carbon footprint per pallet stored. In fact the Bendi offers the same storage capacity as a warehouse operating counterbalance trucks in just 33% of the space! That makes the warehouse with Bendi 66% more energy efficient.
Meanwhile, leading producer and marketer of globally recognised alcoholic beverages, Distell, like many large distribution companies do at some time or another, was recently experiencing a serious warehousing space squeeze. To solve the problem there initially seemed to be two choices: to expand the footprint of the warehouse or raise the roof – both undesirable because of the high costs and significant disruption.


HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED GOD WHERE ARE YOU?
WORSHIP IS A JOURNEY INTO HIS PRESENCE.
"Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time." And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
1) THE JOURNEY TO WORSHIP CHANGES WHAT I SAY.
2) THE JOURNEY TO WORSHIP CHANGES WHAT I SEE.
3) THE JOURNEY TO WORSHIP CHANGES HOW I RELATE TO OTHERS.


GOAL 1: Provide educational programs to prevent and address homeless and poverty issues.
Promote adult educations programs- Provide literacy programs for post-secondary adults to make sure persons are better prepared for the employment market.
Promote life skills training in middle and high school-Provide life skills training and money management training in high school so that persons are better prepared to emancipate and maintain their self-sufficiency.
Promote vocational skills training in middle and high schools-Implement and/or expand opportunities for students to learn a variety of skills in preparation for employment so that persons gain necessary skills to obtain employment and self-sufficiency.


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Bio-cleaning business targeted in political attack by Antifa in Portland
Last night, a group of Antifa extremists vandalized a bio-cleaning business in Portland as part of a string of targeted attacks on property since Election Day.
Andy Ngo and Mia Cathell The Post Millennial
November 13, 2020 11:51 PM 3 mins reading
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At 8 p.m. on Thursday night, a couple dozen Antifa dressed in black bloc gathered at Colonel Summers Park in southeast Portland. The planned "direct action" was announced via a digital flyer on social media.
From there, they marched to the office of Rapid Response Bio Clean, a business that contracts with the city of Portland to clean biohazardous material from public spaces. Part of its contract includes removing and cleaning homeless encampments.
Shielding themselves with black umbrellas, Antifa proceeded to disable the building's security cameras with spray paint and smash its windows. They wrote, "Sweeps kill" and "ACAB" (all cops are bastards) on the property.
After announcing a gathering in southeast Portland, antifa marched to Rapid Response Bio Clean & smashed up the place. The business has a contract w/the city to clean biohazards at homeless encampments. #Antifa want the cleaning to stop, saying it displaces the homeless. pic.twitter.com/6h4N3H6wrS
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) November 13, 2020
Portland Police only responded to the location after staff called police. A spokesperson for the bureau told The Post Millennial that local authorities were aware of the gathering at Colonel Summers Park that preceded the vandalism.
"This group in particular is known to have multiple places they target," the public information officer said in an email. "It is difficult to know which one of those places they are going to go to during each of their events."
There were no arrests.
Breaking: Surveillance video shows antifa black bloc gathering in front of the Portland "Rapid Response Bio Cleaning" business before disabling the cameras & smashing up the place. Antifa have launched 4 days of targeted attacks since election day. No arrests made last night. pic.twitter.com/DN58xwSz0N
Lance Hamel, the owner of Rapid Response Bio Clean, says the business has been vandalized numerous times since becoming a contractor with the city in 2015.
"This is the price of doing this kind of business," he says.
Left-wing activists in Portland rail against the city's periodic removal and cleaning of illegal homeless encampments. The sites are usually contaminated with biological waste and used needles. Other services provided by the business include collecting used needles from drop-off sites and disinfecting areas contaminated by blood following assaults and homicides.
Antifa smashed the Rapid Response Bio Clean business. Photo: Andy Ngo
Since Election Day, Antifa in Portland have shifted their attacks away from law enforcement and government buildings onto targeted businesses and private property.
It appears that Rapid Response Bio Clean had been selected as a target several days before the attack on Thursday night. On Monday, a Twitter account belonging to an Antifa activist and president of the Portland chapter of the Socialist Rifle Association called for action against the business by posting its address and photographs of the owner.
"Maybe its time we start giving Rapid Response a good ol' Portland 'F— you!!" tweeted Nicholas S. Hayes using a moniker. He followed up the post with doxes on the business and its owner. The 24-year-old University of Oregon alumnus secretly leads the Socialist Rifle Association, an Antifa affinity group that trains its members to use firearms. Hayes calls himself anti-fascist and anti-capitalist on his Twitter profile.
Nicholas S. Hayes is an antifa activist and leader of the Portland Socialist Rifle Association. He called for action against Rapid Response Bio Clean.??
Thursday's Antifa attack follows a string of targeted vandalisms on businesses and property by Antifa following the election. On Sunday, they severely damaged the headquarters of the Multnomah County Democrats. Last week, they smashed up several dozen businesses and a church in downtown.
Mayor Ted Wheeler's office did not respond to requests for comment. Portland Police are asking those with information to contact Crime Stoppers of Oregon.
As for Hamel, the business owner, he says he doesn't have anything to say to the people responsible for the vandalism. "We will continue to service our clients as we always have."


It'll be a gorgeous Cinco de Mayo in South Florida with mostly sunny and dry conditions Monday.
A cooler morning will give way to a warm afternoon with highs around 85.
The warm and sunny weather will continue Tuesday as highs reach 87.
The dry conditions are expected to continue through the rest of the work week and into the weekend.


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A Country Split in Two? Contemporary Italy and Its Usable and Unusable Pasts
Richard Bosworth
In this article, Richard Bosworth examines the state of the recent Italian past in the light of the April 2006 elections, so narrowly contested between coalitions of Left and Right. In doing so, he utilises Tony Judt's recent commentary about the place of history in general, and the history of the Second World War in particular, arguing that Italy may helpfully be compared in its historiographical tensions with the ex-communist countries of Eastern Europe. Bosworth concludes optimistically that, if the perverse figure of Silvio Berlusconi can finally be extracted from the Italian body politic, now may be the moment for a more subtle and comprehensive understanding of Italy's 'long Second World War' and so of the meaning of its Fascist dictatorship.
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I started on June 1.
My first account entry is on June 1.
"To Be Budgeted" is 0.
Budgeted in June is equal to all my income.
The account is balanced, $0 uncleared.
"Funds for June" is $606.35 higher than "Budgeted in June."
And when I click back to May, where every single line is set to $0, it says "Funds for May =$606.35"
I don't understand why this is happening. Can you help me?
When you started using YNAB, did you have any money sitting in an account you added? (i.e., a starting balance). That's not income, but it is money that you budgeted. Look at all of your starting balances for each account you added to YNAB (not counting tracking accounts). Do you see any starting balances with a May date?
And do you have any money budgeted in the future?
The point is: "funds for [month]" will almost never equal your income for that month, because it includes opening balances (when you start using YNAB) and category balances that rolled over from last month.
No other money when I started.
I started with one account, the balance was negative $13 and that is reflected in total income minus total budgeted.
No transactions with May dates, no future budgeted items.
I would understand it being higher if I rolled something into June, but still, every dollar has a job, so budgeted and funds for should match, I would think.
Scott Schreiber Is the date on your phone/computer correct? Anything hidden? Try filtering just for May, see if anything pops up. I know that you have checked however I can not count the times I looked and looked for something that was right in front of my face.
Date's good. No transactions prior to 6/1/2018. Filtering before June shows none, filtering including june shows all, first date is the day I started using YNAB: 6/01/2018.
Scott Hmmm...the only thing I can think of is a timezone thing, but I would think that more people would have the same issue. There is always the software favorite, uninstall and reinstall, I have seen that cure weird computer issues.
Did you directly import anything from your bank? If so are there any dates in the Memo fields? Grasping at straws here, but it has my mind working.
And yeah, I direct import from the bank, but there are no dates in the memo field.
Scott I have one crazy idea, change all the 06/01/2018 dates to 06/02/2018 and see what happens. I know that 06/01/2018 is your start date and I don't see how this would effect it, but did you set up your budget in May?
Have you filtered/organized your transactions? Is there one for $606.35?
If "Funds for June" is $606.35 higher than "Budgeted in June," but TBB is 0, there should be $606.35 shown as "Budgeted in Future." If there isn't, this is really weird.
I see two puzzles here. First, where did that $606.35 come from? The program thinks it came in prior to June 1, yet you have no entries prior to that date.
The second puzzle is, what is the program doing with that $606.35? If it's budgeted in July or later, that would look normal; but if Budgeted in Future is zero, there's $606.35 that came out of nowhere and then disappeared into nowhere.
You have only one account in the whole budget? No credit card or savings accounts?
VanillaCottage No savings account. 1 credit card added June 15, 1 auto loan added June 25.
Scott Is the loan on-budget (not a tracking account)? And have you double checked your credit card account transactions? Are there any transactions in those accounts dated in May? Are there any transactions in those other accounts with a positive balance (i.e., in the Inflow column)? Those transactions will also affect Funds for [Month].
The car loan is a tracking account. I do have a budget line item for the monthly payment, but I don't think they are connected like the CC is, and the payment is well below $606.
There are no transactions on the CC, and the balance is well below the mysterious $606.
No transactions in May, no positive transactions.
That definitely sounds like a puzzle!
When you have a moment, can you take a look at your Income vs. Expense report? The $606 should be listed there (or the individual transactions combined to get that amount) and you can click on it for details.
When I try to select May, I can't. It's greyed out.
And when I select things like "This year" or "All Dates" the report doesn't change. Only June is there.
If it's okay with you, I'd love to take a closer look at what's going on! I just sent you a request via email. If you're up for it, please take a look and reply there to give us permission to access your budget. Then we'll continue our conversation here in the forum!
Scott I noticed you do have $606.35 Budgeted in Future. Have you budgeted any money in July or beyond? Also, what is you total spending in June? Does it equal the amount for "Budgeted in Future" in the header.
LarryinLA $606.35 budgeted in Future was from the May screen, where there are no budgeted amounts and no account transactions. In the current month, June, "Budgeted in Future" is $0.
Total spending in June is more than "Budgeted in Future" ($0) and also more than the mystery $606.35.
VanillaCottage According to YNAB Support folks, there were some background cleanup routines that did not purge some deleted transactions, so even tho they weren't showing up on the screen, they were invisibly still hanging around in the end of May. They manually ran the cleanup and it purged them.
I think I have a similar problem. Each month, I budget my previous month's income so that my TBB amount is $0. At the end of the month, I make sure to cover all overages with excess from other categories or savings so that I do not have any overages. I will leave some categories with an excess that I want to grow each month. I just did this with July. TBB is at $0, but this is what I see.
Many of my previous months have similar values - TBB at $0 and positive or negative values in Funds for.
Where is this $566.42 coming from? The month is over and everything is zeroed out. I have budgeted for August and everything is at $0 like I would expect.
Magenta Transistor "Funds for July" just shows the total amount that came in through Inflow: TBB during the month. "Funds for August" shows $0 because presumably you've had no new income in August yet. That number will change as new income is received.
"Funds for <Month>" is actually the sum of all "Inflow: TBB" earned in that month plus any funds earned (but not budgeted) in prior months.
For someone who consistently "lives on last months income" -- e.g. fully budgets their July earnings into August's budget -- then the "Funds for <Month>" values will always equal 2 months worth of income: The income earned during the current month + previous month. The portion of funds earned in the previous month should be "Budgeted in <Month>" and the portion of funds earned during the current month should be "Budgeted in Future".
I really wish the YNAB UI made it possible to drill into the "Funds of <Month>" value and see a breakdown of how it was calculated -- i.e. what portion of it is being rolled over from previous months, and which individual inflows in the current month have contributed to it.
Magenta Transistor "Budgeted in [This Month]" is the total of the Budgeted column for that month, and since your total "Funds for July" was $566.42, but you had $2.27 overspending, Budgeted in July is $564.15 ($566.42 - $564.15 = $2.27).
However, after importing the transactions for the first few days on August which included the payoff our our credit card on August 3rd, my "Funds for Aug" is now at $320.64 which has increased my TBB for August as well.
Now, when I look at my Credit Card account on the side, I see a positive value of $320.64 as well. I am assuming this is the same thing that happened in July and any previous month that has a value other than $0.00 in our "Funds for".
Why should I budget this $320.64? I feel like it is made up money - credit that is not really tangible cash. I have already budgeted all of the income from July into August. Paying off my credit card should not earn me more income. How do I make sense of this?
Magenta Transistor At the time you paid the credit card, did you pay the amount that YNAB said would zero out your balance? It sounds like you overpaid your card, in which case you DO have a positive balance to be budgeted. If you didn't overpay your card but YNAB thinks you did, did you receive cash back or have a return on the card that went through after your payment? Alternatively, did you budget money to the Credit Card Payment category in July beyond any preexisting debt?
Magenta Transistor Mamster is correct. It sounds like you overpaid your credit card. If this isn't the case, you may need to reconcile your accounts to correct those balances.
When you have a Positive Balance on a credit card, it's treated as cash - which is why your To Be Budgeted changed.
Take a look at those links and let me know what you find!
Is the last part of this statement accurate? In my account, it doesn't *seem* that category balances are being reflected in 'funds for [month]'. If you add up my category balances that carried over from the previous month, it's a lot higher than the funds for amount.
Pink Snow Please consider it picked. ;) We do try to keep a close eye on things, but occasionally we miss a post or two. Thank you for asking about this - it keeps us on our toes!
Pink Snow Sorry for my mistake!
mamster oh don't apologize for a second. People like you make YNAB amazing. And it's a complicated product, all the more need for the amazing paid support staff to monitor closely. But no biggie at all.


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Facebook and informed consent
By now, many people will probably know that Facebook conducted an experiment on around 700,000 users by manipulating their news feeds to see whether it impacted their mental state, their mood. Now the issue is not the size of the experiment nor the merits of the experiment nor even the result. The real issue is informed consent and whether users were aware and agreed to such experimentation.
It would have been relatively trivial for Facebook to have sent a message to a million odd users saying
'Facebook would like to conduct an experiment on how the content of newsfeed impacts emotions. In order to do this, Facebook is looking for volunteers for such a study. At some point in the next year we will manipulate the feeds of those volunteers either positively, negatively or not at all (the baseline) for a period of one week to observe any change in behaviour. It should be noted that there exists the possibility that some volunteers moods will be altered adversely during that time. The purpose of the research is to determine ways of improving newsfeed content to create a more positive experience and mood. The results of the work will be published and user details will be anonymous. Volunteers may request to see how their feed was altered and any impact on them after the study. Do you agree to volunteering for this study?'
Now the above I wrote quickly in a few minutes and could be vastly improved. However, the purpose of it would be to gain consent and agreement to an experiment to change your mood in a given timeframe for a specific purpose. This is what we call - informed consent. You know what is happening and you agree to it.
In the case of Facebook it didn't inform people specifically because it argues that when you sign up to the T&Cs then you agree to such experimentation. There are two problems with this argument.
1) I doubt if you asked a 100 people to read the Facebook T&Cs that any would agree with the statement that 'By agreeing to the T&C's then you're agreeing to Facebook conducting psychological experiments on you'. Most would probably react with shock and ask 'where does it say that?'
The single line in the Data Use Policy states
we may use the information we receive about you:
for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement.
This is unlikely to qualify as informed consent as the average user would more likely expect this to mean functional changes, speed performance or reliability of the service rather than psychological experiments.
2) You have no option but to agree to the T&Cs or you cannot use the service to communicate with friends. In fact, looking back at earlier T&C's I've yet to find when the above line appeared. If it is the case that this 'research' line appeared in later T&C's then given the widespread use of Facebook to communicate with friends then this is not consent to experimentation but coercion to experimentation e.g. let us experiment on you if you want to continue talking with friends on Facebook.
Whichever way I look at this, I can't see how it can be considered informed consent. At best, it's uninformed consent at worst it's uninformed coercion. Neither is ethical.
But why would you do this? Well, either it's complete arrogance and disregard for users or worse it's that basest of all reasons - money. As anyone who has conducted such experiments before will probably tell you, with the exception of high minded individuals then most people ask 'What do I get for this?'
Yes, if you're going to experiment on people then they normally expect to be paid. However, avoiding cost is no better an excuse for avoiding informed consent than saying there's a line in the T&C or arguing the results don't mean much. The only partial excuse I can think of is 'we were stupid'.
The experiment conducted is in my opinion truly awful, not because of the results but because of the lack of informed consent. I read a lot of apologists for Silicon Valley saying this is ok. Well, fortunately it's not for them to decide.
I'm glad Jim Sheridan has asked the Commons Media Select Committee to investigate.
-- Update 1st July 2014
When I was looking for when the T&Cs had changed to include the 'research' line, my concern was that this experiment was not just uninformed consent but instead uniformed coercion i.e. users didn't have any real choice but to allow Facebook to experiment on them on threat of losing the service. There was no opt-out. However, little did I imagine that Facebook (or is that FacePalm?) would apparently change the T&C's after they had conducted the experiment.
So, all those apologists for Facebook claiming it was in the T&C's better start trying to think up another excuse. Not only was this not informed consent by any stretch of the imagination, it wasn't even uniformed coercion. It seems to be a new low of Facebook doing whatever it likes without any concern over what it had agreed with, or informed the users of.
Yes, the effects were minor (if you consider tens of thousands of people affected as minor) and yes, the furore might mean Facebook won't publish further research. Which is almost certainly why we will need regulation to stop experimentation on the sly.
No, this isn't simple A/B testing as most users would reasonably expect sites to try different functional pages in order to improve user experience / interaction / ease of use. What users don't expect is for companies to manipulate their personal newsfeed in order to initiate a change of their mental state.
The argument that Facebook was only trying to change your mental state in order to improve your experience with the site is the most tenuous bit of arse covering I've read in a long time. Given the generalised, flimsy and buried line in the T&C's which supposedly permitted this didn't even exit at the time of the experiment then I hope the Commons media select committee hauls Facebook over the coals for this.
Apparently a Facebook spokesperson told Forbes "When someone signs up for Facebook, we've always asked permission to use their information to provide and enhance the services we offer." Well, that's true of many services but I can't see how any reasonable person would interpret this as "When someone signs up for Facebook, they give us permission to run psychological experiments on them including manipulating their newsfeed with the intention of negatively altering their mood".
Oh, and finally people keep on pointing out that advertisers do this all the time. Well, yes they do but that's adverts and we know that advertisers manipulate and we have legislation that even covers this. Few of us trust what advertisers say. But it wasn't adverts that Facebook manipulated it was our newsfeed. It was the collection of messages that we receive from our social network, something we value, something we trust and something which we don't expect to be manipulated in this manner.
We certainly don't expect our newsfeed to be manipulated in a manner designed to effect our mood as part of psychological experiment that we weren't even asked whether we minded being part of and then told we had given 'informed consent' because of an obscure line in the T&Cs that no reasonable person would interpret as meaning such consent and which didn't even exist when the experiment took place.
Posted by swardley at 10:59 am
Facebook, the Select Committee and one in a million.
Scenario planning and the future ...
On doing what you love ...
Thoughts on conferences
Full asking price and the end of Caveat Emptor?
How to beat Amazon at its own game ...
Robots will eat all the jobs ...
This is not the data you're looking for ...
On capabilities
My list vs Gartner


Washington D.C., April 12, 2019 – In late May 1976, the secret police chieftains of six Southern Cone military regimes gathered at a clandestine summit in Santiago, Chile, to create a "new unit, which was given the code name 'Teseo'"—a reference to Theseus, the mythical Greek King of the Athenians and heroic slayer of the Minotaur, among other enemies.
Washington D.C., March 24, 2019 - On the 43rd anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, the Argentine government of Mauricio Macri has announced that the Trump Administration will provide "the largest delivery of declassified documents, in size and file quality, to another nation"—formerly secret U.S.
Washington, D.C., December 10, 2018 – The National Security Archive mourns the passing of Lyudmila Mikhailovna Alexeyeva, our dear friend, colleague and inspiration for all our work documenting human rights abuses globally. She passed away on December 8 at the age of 91.
Washington, D.C., August 13, 2018—Guatemala's renowned Historical Archive of the National Police (AHPN) is in crisis after its director Gustavo Meoño Brenner was abruptly removed in one of a series of recent actions orchestrated by the Guatemalan government and a United Nations office. The actions also placed the AHPN's remaining staff of more than fifty people on temporary contract, and transferred oversight for the repository from the country's national archives, where it had functioned since 2009, to the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
Declassified documents detail US policy in period leading up to, following Suharto's May, 1998 ouster, knowledge of military involvement in student abductions and killings.
Washington, D.C., May 23, 2018 - CIA-trained Cuban exile and suspect in the 1976 Cuban jetliner bombing that killed all 73 people on board, Luis Posada Carriles, has died at the age of 90.


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Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke
by Christina McDonald	 July 4, 2020 35 comments
Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke have been best friends for over thirty years. They are the co-authors of seven novels, including the Amazon Charts bestseller, The Good Widow. Their forthcoming book, How to Save a Life, a dark, heart-pounding love story with a Groundhog Day twist, will release on July 14. Liz and Lisa host the popular podcast We Fight So You don't Have To, and are monthly on-air contributors on their local news with Liz & Lisa's Book Club. In their former lives, Liz worked in the pharmaceutical industry and Lisa was a talk-show producer. They both reside with their families and several rescue dogs in Southern California.
How To Save A Life
When Dom bumps into Mia, his ex-fiancée, he believes they've been given a second chance and asks her out. But then Mia dies tragically on their date and Dom makes a desperate wish: to be given the chance to save her life. And when he wakes the next morning to the shock that she's alive, he thinks his wish may have been granted. But day after day, no matter what he changes about their time together, she still meets a terrible fate.
Dom frantically searches for answers to save his beloved Mia and rekindle their former love. But the further he digs, the more obsessed he becomes. In the end, will Dom be able to save Mia?
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Barnes & Noble | Indiebound | Bookshop.org
Flawless and irresistible, profoundly moving and endlessly emotional. How To Save A Life is a truly unique and beautiful reimagining of Groundhog Day, asking if life and death are preordained, if our destiny is predetermined, and if some lives are meant to be saved.
Author's Corner – Interview with Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke
Thanks so much for being on Author's Corner! Where do you two get your writing ideas from, and how to you write as a duo rather than an individual?
We are so happy to be here! We get our inspiration from everywhere! We seem to gravitate toward complex narrative questions about fate, destiny and regret and tie it back into every day relationships. This may be derived from our own fascination with these topics?
We have a simple process. One of us will write a chapter, the other will edit. We pass back and forth until are happy. Then the other person will start the next. That's it! No bells and whistles!
Can you tell me something about you that your readers might not know? For example, writing quirks, funny processes, passions, what you would do if you weren't a writer? Just a brief insight into who you each are as a person outside of writing.
LIZ: I worked in the pharmaceutical industry for almost twenty years! And I love animals—I have five rescue dogs and a cat. I'd have more if my husband would allow!
LISA: I worked in television for 15 years and as a producer on the Dr Phil Show for seven of those years.
What is the first thing — ever — that you remember writing?
LIZ: My elementary school put out a literary magazine. Students would submit the editors would choose. I wrote two poems in first grade that were published. I still have it!
LISA: When I was eight years old, I wrote a poem called Nothing Makes Christmas, it Just Comes.
What do you like to do after a day of writing intense scenes? What's your favorite me-time treat?
LIZ: Binge-watching something light and fluffy like The Bold Type!
LISA: I work out. I have a Peloton and I'm in love!
What would you do if you weren't a writer?
LIZ: I probably would have risen the ranks at the pharma company I worked for. I might be running it by now!
LISA: I would be the television producer I already was!
If you could recommend any other book(s) that you've read and loved recently, what would it be?
LIZ: I recently finished Rodham by Curtis Sittenfield, and found it fascinating. It reimagines Hillary's life had she not married Bill Clinton.
LISA: I just finished a book called The Sight of You by Holly Miller, about a man who dreams about the people he loves and that's not always a good thing. It's the perfect summer read.
If you could invite five people (dead or alive) to a dinner party, who would they be and why?
LIZ: JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and John McCain. I'd love to hear their perspectives and insights on the current state of our world. (And I want JFK to spill all his tea! You know he's got some!)
LISA: Michelle Obama, Barack Obama and Martin Luther King, Jr. for obvious reasons—they would shine so much light on many important issues. Lin Manuel-Miranda because he's a genius and I'd love to experience how his mind works. And Kenny Chesney—I'm a huge fan and would love him to talk about his song writing process!
What are some of the jobs you had before becoming an author? How have they helped you in your writing career now?
LIZ: My pharma career taught me how to observe people and study their behaviours, in order to predict future behaviour. I find I still do that—observe and take bits and pieces to build characters.
LISA: My time as a talk show producer has given me a lot of ideas for characters!
Writing How To Save A Life
Let's talk about your new book, How To Save A Life. Can you tell my readers a little about it?
It's a dark heart pounding love story with a Groundhog day twist. Dom runs into his ex-love Mia after a decade apart. He asks her out and she ties tragically on their date Thursday night. But when he awakes the next morning, it is Thursday once more. And he has a second chance. But when she perishes again and he wakes up to another Thursday, he must figure out how to free himself from this time loop, and how to save his beloved Mia.
How did you come up with the idea?
We'd just finished reading The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and loved the idea of living the same day over and over.
Describe How To Save A Life in three words.
Pulse-pounding. Poignant. Thought-provoking.
What do you think readers will love about How To Save A Life?
We think readers will love Dom, and his quest to save Mia. But they will also connect with his journey as he begins to understand that his past might be preventing his future. We've never written from a male perspective before, and it was so fun!
This book! I was so in love with Dom and Mia and my emotions were all over the place! How do you come up with such authentic, believable characters?
Thank you! We don't do much character vetting before beginning but we try to pull from our own experiences in relationships and experiences.
How To Save A Life was such a perfect balance of suspense and emotion! I know you've moved away from the more intense suspense novels to magical realism – was that an intentional shift?
Yes. We like to write what we want to read. As we were brainstorming this idea, which started out much more suspense-ish, we realized our hearts weren't in it. So, we started over with a romance as the center of the story. And Dom and Mia were born!
What's next for Liz & Lisa?
Are you working on a new book? Can you tell my readers a little about it, a blurb, potential release date, etc? Where did you get the idea?
We've recently finished a novel, but can't say much, except it will explore the question of whether fate is pre-destined. Hoping it will be coming your way next summer!
Liz & Lisa love connecting with readers. You can get in touch with them at:
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Thank you so much for all of your kind words!!!
Christina, we can't thank you enough for this interview!!!!
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They sound like a fabulous team
Love hearing this! Thank you!
Thank you! We love writing together!


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Goodbye, King of Pop
As most of you already know, Michael Jackson passed away yesterday. It's a very sad time.
Since we don't want to repeat what has already written everywhere else about arguably one of the greatest all time performers in music history, we decided to look around the web for radio stations that only play Michael Jackson. We uploaded one to share with you, called MJTunes – Michael Jackson Radio, where you'll find his music – songs, remixes, concerts… everything about him. If there are any other MJ radios we should have, please let us know. We'll make that a priority.
Goodbye, King of Pop.
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13 thoughts on "Goodbye, King of Pop"
homedetoxgirl says:
It is such a great loss that a man with great talent like Michael Jackson dies. RIP King of POP.
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Michael Jackson is my favorite pop artist ever since i was a child. He is truly the King of Pop and i am saddened by this news.
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there would be no other King of Pop like Michael Jackson. he would always be the King.
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all of my friends are Michael Jackson fans, we would really miss the King of Pop.
madein says:
HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST PERSON IN THIS WORLD..GOOD NATURED, INNOCENT, SWEET, HAD MELODIOUS VOICE ETC,, I CANT WRITE IT HERE.. IT NEEDS LOTS OF PLACE..
Chezzny says:
Michael Jackson would always be the best popstar ever. i love all his songs and his live concerts.
Jonathanne Kim says:
Michael Jackson is truly the King of Pop!. He made a lot of great songs in the area of Pop Music. His death is a great loss to the music industry.
Nathy says:
Ben was my favorite Michael Jackson song and i kind of miss the King of Pop now that he is forever gone. I still have my collection of michael jackson cassetes in the old days..
Palmira Niedzwiedzki says:
I really miss Michael Jackson. He is truly the greatest pop singer of the century. Farewell king of pop..
Jack Smith says:
there is no doubt that Michael Jackson is the best ever pop music artist of the Centruy,*.
Jasmine Turner says:
i will really miss the King of Pop. michael jackson is truly the best pop artist in this lifetime.:..
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I have observed mylsef that my concentration level is higher when music is played in the background while I am doing any work.The best music is soft instrumental. Rock is too loud to distract you. If there are songs sung by someone are equally distracting as the lyrics and the modulation and pitch of voice distract. The most important thing to remember is that the music should be something very soft, soothing. Some which work best for me area) Yanni tracks Nostalgia, Until last moment, One man, Nightingaleb) Kitaroc) Titanic tracks they are instrumentald) And if you like Indian music, then go for Sitar by Ravi Shankare) Santoor by Shiv kumar sharmaSo, which one would you go for?Happy home-working!!For more suggestions and assistance with your homework, mail back.


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The female gathers nesting material from the forest floor and builds a flimsy nest in 3–4 days, spending relatively little time on it each day. She drops material onto the nest, hops in, and molds it into shape by pressing her body against the sides and bottom, then getting out and weaving in loose ends. The nest is a loosely woven saucer of twigs, grasses, plant stalks, bark strips, rootlets, and pine needles. It has a shallow and asymmetrical interior space, lined with grass, fine rootlets, fine plant fibers, vine tendrils, and pine needles.
Egg Description: Greenish blue to light blue speckled with chestnut, purplish red, and lilac.
Condition at Hatching: Helpless, eyes closed, with orange skin and small tufts of grayish white down on the head and back.
Scarlet Tanagers visit many kinds of berry plants, including blackberries, raspberries, huckleberries, juneberries, serviceberries, mulberries, strawberries, and chokeberries.
Mowbray, Thomas B. 1999. Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York, USA.
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